Look Ups and Browsable Indexes

EEB offers 6 Look ups or browsable indexes, so you can easily find spelling or format variations of, for example, an author's name or a journal title. You can find the Look up links in the advanced search page and they are available for the following searchable fields:

Authors

Places of publication

Publishers

Source libraries

Subject headings (all)

USTC subject classifications

For a description of these fields, please see the searchable fields table on the right.

Note: Look ups are also available from the Command Line search (through the Look up terms link).

To use and locate a Look up or browsable index, select the field from the advanced search pull-down menu. If a Look up is available, under the search row you will see a link to theLook up. Other Look ups and browsable indexes will be listed in the Limit To section of the advanced search page.

Select the Look up link and then you will see a browsable and alphabetical index for that field. There are some indexes that will not display an alphabetical list before searching for the term, rather you will have to enter a term first, and then the alphabetical list of matches will display.

Once you locate the index term that you would like to add to your search, mark the item, and then click the Add to search button. The index term will now appear in the advanced search form along with the appropriate pull-down menu selection.

Example of topographical variants

CERL variants of place of publication

Variants of Venice are:

Venedig

Benetczih

Benetia

Benetiai

Benetikes

Bneci

Bnezi

Cytheropolis

Enetia

Enetiai

Enetiesi

Enetiesin

Enetinesin achxs

Henetie

Henetiesi

Henetiesin

Mleczi

Mletci

Mleti

Mlezieh

Mneti

Portus Venetus

Urbs Veneta

Vanezia

Venec

Venecia

Venegia

Venentia

Venesia

Veneta

Venetae

Veneti

Venetia

Venetiae

Venetiam

Venetiaru. urbe

Venetiarum urbe

Venetie Insula

Venetien

Venetii

Venetiis

Venetiis apud Aldum

Venetiis Venedig

Venetijs

Venetik

Venetikow

Venetis

Venetium

Venetriae

Venetus

Veneza

Venezi

Venezia

Veneziaaa

Veneziae

Venezie

Venezio

Venice

Venise

Venisia

Venisse

Venize

Ventia

Ventiae

Ventiis

Venzia

Vienegia

Vinega

Wenesa

Wenes'a

Wenesia

Wenesi'a

Wenesiah

Wenesi'ah

Wenesiya

Wenesiyya

List of Searchable Fields

Field Name

Label

Search Examples & Explanation

Accession/Bibliographic Number

AN

AN(LN 356)

alphanumeric entry used in STCI and Wing – see the Abbreviations referencebox to view complete references to abbreviations in the bibliographic name/number field

Alternate Title

OTI

OTI(Epistul*)

Generally taken from the library catalogue, and might include short titles, translated titles and uniform titles, e.g.: Epistolæ astronomicæ.

Author

AU

AU(Galilei, Galileo)

AU(Galileo Galilei)

The Author field covers names of authors, editors, publishers, companies and performers. Personal names can be entered either forename followed by surname or surname, forename. Author names are standardized by using the Library of Congress name form as an authority form.

The LookUp list in Advanced Search or Command Line and the list in Browse can be used to browse and select names from the index. When selecting from a list of names, the names of people are listed in the format: surname, forename.

The list in Browse can be used to browse and select countries from the index.

Document Notes

NT

NT(8vo)

This field contains miscellaneous information. It mostly points out details specific to the copy in question (torn pages, fingerprints, wear and tear, anomalies or eccentricities in its presentation). It also might occasionally include some provenance information or detailed Incipit and Explicit information. It also includes Physical description (8vo or Octavo) and Pagination.

(Incipit and Explicit – medieval manuscripts usually began with the word “Incipit” (“Here begins…”), often in rubricated text. So too did the beginning of each chapter or division contained within that manuscript. Similarly, these manuscripts and their constituent chapter endings would finish with the word “Explicit” (“Here ends…”). Some early modern texts continued this tradition, and use of these terms also found its way into library annotation).

Document Feature

DF

DF.exact("Illuminated Lettering")

Document Feature search allows users to find documents that contain examples of 18 different kinds of special feature (listed here). e.g. Coat of arms; Illuminated lettering; Portrait – value add indexing added by ProQuest as part of the digitization.

The Document Feature box in Advanced Search can be used to browse and select definitions from the list.

The LookUp list in Advanced Search or Command Line can be used to browse and select names from the index.

Publisher

PB

PB(Elsevier*)

PB(Manuzio)

UsePrinter/publisher nameto retrieve documents published by a specific printer or publisher.

The LookUp list in Advanced Search or Command Line can be used to browse and select names from the index.

Publication Year

PY, YR

PY(1457)

YR(1664-1699)

Use a single year or series of years (separated by a hyphen) to search for every issue published during that year or that course of years.

Early European Books limits itself to providing high-resolution images of items printed before 1701. However, some of the sources upon which it is based associate pre-1701 imprints with later items, and in a number of cases it has been found necessary to capture later material in order to provide the fullest possible access to the pre-1701 printed record. So there may be documents dated later than 1701. The earliest publication date is approximately 1450, the approximate date of the first European printed books. Please note that the earliest publication date in your search results will vary depending on which collection(s) you have access to.

The list in Browse can be used to browse and select years or decades from the index.

Source library

SIN

SIN(Nederland)

The current contributing libraries are 5 (see list here). The list of source libraries displayed will vary depending on which collection(s) you have access to.

The LookUp list in Advanced Search or Command Line can be used to browse and select names of the Source Libraries from the index.

Source Type

STYPE

Stype(books)

All the documents in the databases are from the same source type: Books.

Subject Headings (All)

MAINSUBJECT

Mainsubject.Exact("art forms")

The 'subject' search enables researchers to select from a list of terms provided by the 5 different source libraries, presented as one integrated list of terms.

We retain the source library’s subject indexing where this is available.

The LookUp list in Advanced Search or Command Line can be used to browse and select terms from the index.

Subject

SU

SU(ART)

The subject field will encompass search in the Mainsubject and USTC subject classification fields

USTC subject classification

USTC

USTC.Exact("Art and architecture")

The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) is a collective database of all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century. USTC subject classifications have been added to Early European Books records, adding a further searchable component to the collection.